Walter B. Jacobs
Jan. 31, 1915-July 7, 1990
Niles Daily Star, Monday, July 9, 1990, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
Funeral services for Walter B. Jacobs, 75, of 19791 Palisade Ave., South Bend, Ind., are at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Pifer-Smith Funeral Home in Niles by the Rev. Russell Ross of the First Church of Christ-Christian in Niles.
Burial will follow at Silverbrook Cemetery in Niles where graveside military committal rites will be conducted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 624 of Roseland, Ind., and Post 360 of Mishawaka, Ind.
Jacobs died at 6:33 p.m. at home following a two-week illness.
Jacobs was born Jan. 31, 1915, in South Bend and was a lifetime resident of the area. He retired in 1978 from the South Bend Range Corp., where he had been employed as a drill press operator. He was a World War II army veteran, and was affiliated with the First Church of Christ-Christian.
On Jan. 30, 1971, in South Bend, he married Imogene Bollman, who survives him.
Also surviving are a step-daughter, Helen Haynes of South Bend; four step-sons, Fred Bollman, Steve Saros and Paul Saros, all of South Bend, and Dwight Bollman of Milton, Ill.; two sisters, Mercedes Konschur and Anna May Baker, both of South Bend; several grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.